How do players who really played Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown rate it? TrueGG Rating 58.1%

Release date: Sep 12, 2024 Data as of 2026-10-17 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it higher than Steam overall. Early impressions are weaker, so the first few hours tend to decide whether it clicks.

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗

58.1%

▲ +21.4 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 5+ hours (last 180 days) · 621 reviews

TrueGG, all time: 45.4%
Steam overall: 36.8%
Japanese, all time: 28.2%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 22.4% of all reviews. Their positive share is 13.9%.

This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).

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Does the rating change the longer people play?

Used for TrueGG Rating (5h+)JapaneseRight: reviews

Positive share by playtime at the time of review (reviews from the last 180 days). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.

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Playtime	Positive	Japanese	Reviews
0–1 h	6.8%	0.0%	234
1–2 h	18.8%	0.0%	117
2–5 h	39.3%	—	206
5–10 h	52.9%	0.0%	136
10–20 h	59.4%	100.0%	155
20–50 h	62.0%	0.0%	179
50–100 h	60.0%	0.0%	95
100–200 h	53.7%	—	41
200+ h	46.7%	—	15

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 5+ hours. 29% had 20+ hours and 6% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown has a TrueGG Rating of 58.1%: the positive share among 621 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 5+ hours. That is 21.4 points above Steam's overall 36.8%, so players who really play the current version rate it higher than the headline number suggests (all time: 45.4%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 22% of the total, and only 14% of them are positive. Some players bounce off early, but those who get past the opening rate it higher. Steam accepts refund requests within 2 hours of play and 14 days of purchase.

Negative reviews most often mention crashes and bugs. Positive reviews praise how fun it feels, graphics and music, and the story.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals gives 40.6% (+3.8 points vs Steam overall); keep this in mind when reading the headline number.

All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-17.

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Why it is rated this way

What drives the rating

Complaints center on technical quality (Crashes & bugs). These can be fixed, so check recent reviews too. It is also a game many people bounce off early (early reviews are much less positive than those of players who stuck with it).

− Most mentioned complaints

Crashes & bugs22% of negative reviews (11% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · ongoing since launch · 9 positive reviews say it improved

+ What players praise

Fun & feel44% of positive reviews (19% of negative)
Graphics & music33% of positive reviews (22% of negative)
Story12% of positive reviews (8% of negative)
Price12% of positive reviews (6% of negative)

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Counted from 381 recent negative and 330 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count

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Checking the numbers

Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.

Metric	Positive	Scope
Official Steam rating	36.8%	All time, all languages · 12,487 reviews
Adjusted rating	40.6%	Weighted by trust (95% range 39.6%–41.5%), +3.8pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews	27.0%	All time, Japanese-language reviews (−9.7pt vs overall) · 111 reviews

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Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.

Condition	Positive reviews	Negative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review	8%	42%
Very short text	13%	11%
Key activated outside Steam	35%	40%
Received for free	2%	2%
Owns very few games	11%	9%
Over 100 reviews written	5%	4%
Average trust (1.0 = full)	0.82	0.70

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 16.4 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-17

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When did the rating change?

Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.

Reviews per month

■ Positive■ Negative

Positive share per month

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

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Month	Positive	Negative	Positive
2024-09	1,300	2,178	37.4%
2024-10	96	321	23.0%
2024-11	115	164	41.2%
2024-12	104	123	45.8%
2025-01	46	77	37.4%
2025-02	24	56	30.0%
2025-03	83	131	38.8%
2025-04	36	31	53.7%
2025-05	49	68	41.9%
2025-06	34	38	47.2%
2025-07	60	81	42.6%
2025-08	21	45	31.8%
2025-09	35	40	46.7%
2025-10	49	68	41.9%
2025-11	33	48	40.7%
2025-12	40	58	40.8%
2026-01	54	80	40.3%
2026-02	31	47	39.7%
2026-03	102	116	46.8%
2026-04	43	63	40.6%
2026-05	55	50	52.4%
2026-06	85	128	39.9%
2026-07	69	80	46.3%
2026-08	29	40	42.0%
2026-09	52	88	37.1%
2026-10	14	28	33.3%

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Day	Positive	Negative
2026-09-18	3	2
2026-09-19	2	3
2026-09-20	2	1
2026-09-21	2	2
2026-09-22	0	2
2026-09-23	1	1
2026-09-24	2	1
2026-09-25	0	2
2026-09-26	1	0
2026-09-27	3	0
2026-09-28	0	0
2026-09-29	0	2
2026-09-30	1	0
2026-10-01	1	0
2026-10-02	0	1
2026-10-03	1	2
2026-10-04	1	5
2026-10-05	0	1
2026-10-06	0	1
2026-10-07	2	5
2026-10-08	0	1
2026-10-09	3	3
2026-10-10	1	1
2026-10-11	1	1
2026-10-12	1	0
2026-10-13	1	1
2026-10-14	0	0
2026-10-15	2	2
2026-10-16	0	3
2026-10-17	0	1